The Final Quest (I)
Five years ago, the Garden's SeeDs with guidance from the Garden's leader and headmaster, Squall and Cid, managed to rebuild the Garden. They made it exactly the same. The same old Garden everyone loved. After they rebuild it, they took on a great task. It was a quest to secure the world's peace once more. The time wraps that were open, had to be hidden. Odine made a device with Quistis help that would allow them to hide the time wraps in other dimensions. Odine gave a lecture about his machine and no one could get how they managed to create such a machine. Squall led the mission and within 2 years they managed to hide every time wrap around the world. There were only a few still visible at distant places, but they weren't causing any problems at their locations. That's why they left them around.
In the five years period, many events occurred. The one that didn't occur was war. After Squall explained through a radio transmission, what the world faced, everyone understood. Every nation in the world tried to make peace contracts with each other, in order to secure peace and help if anything like that happens again. Only Esthar's president was against this contract and managed to Esthar alone once more. A couple of months later the people of Esthar made him leave them for ever. They asked for Laguna to come back and be the president once more, but he turned down. They elected a new president and he signed the peace contract. The old president demolished Lunatic Pandora once again, placed it's pieces into a Ragnarok and sent it to the sun. This would destroy it once and for all.
The life in the Garden, after the quest was completed, was smooth and easy. Cid was still the headmaster, even though he was always saying that Squall was the top head of the Garden. He was helping out Squall lead the Garden. He thanked personally everyone that helped with the Garden in any way, as without their help the Garden would have the same fate as his wife. Edea didn't believe in death. That's why she asked Cid to burn her body and spread the ashes is the sea. Cid respected her wish and did as she wanted. Her last words to him were "I'll see you again one day.", followed by a smile.
Odine left Esthar once and for all. He lived in the Garden with everyone else, giving lectures and sharing his knowledge with everyone. He was really enjoying what he was doing. His old friend Laguna, lived a peaceful life in Winhill. He was asked to be Esthar's president once again but he turned down. He really didn't want to be in a huge city at that age. He wanted to be next to nature, Ellone and Raine. His friends were also around him. Kiros and Ward were his neighbors. Ellone was kind of sad that Squall and Rinoa couldn't finally live with all of them in Winhill, but she wanted them to be happy. And they were indeed happy. Squall and Rinoa had another kid. After Nora, their first girl, got five years old, Rinoa gave birth to a boy. Ray was his name. Squall was helping Rinoa, as much as he could with Nora and Ray. Nora already show some talent in using a gunblade and magic. She cast her first spell when she was four years old. It was a weak water spell in order to water a flower. Rinoa was amazed when she saw that. Everyone was saying that Nora was kind of mature for her age. Rinoa wasn't really care of what everyone else was thinking about Nora. She was mommy's little angel. Squall taught his daughter and many other pupils of all ages the art of the gunblade. Seifer and Squall were doing a great job creating gunbladers for the Garden. Rinoa was teaching the art of magic, along with Selphie. Rinoa, though, because of Ray, couldn't go to her classes. Selphie was there for her and helped her a lot with the lessons. She was the president of the Garden's Festival committee. The Garden's Festival was getting really popular as the years passed. It was Selphie's fault, because she was doing a really good job with it. People from outside the Garden was willing to pay in order to see the Festival, but Cid didn't take any money from them. Irvine was teaching the art of sharpshooting in the Garden. He proposed to Selphie and they got married. Only their friends believed in their relationship and they were right. Quistis after she returned along with Odine and Seifer to the Garden, she resumed teaching general subjects, as she did in the past. She got pretty lucky her self, as Seifer confessed his love to her. He always loved her, that's why he was acting so cool in front of her. She was actually in love with him as well and they got married as well. It was a double wedding. Cid played the role of the priest in the ceremony and married both couples. Zell was the only one that was alone that that period. He was concentrated on teaching his martial art skills to anyone that wanted to follow this path. But his time to get married was closing up, pretty quick. The women of the group, made a new friend. Tesa was the new librarian girl. She was this really shy girl, at the same age with everyone else. She had this really long red hair and this young face. Zell was convinced that he seen her before, but her hair was the only thing he couldn't remember. Quistis was the only one that knew who she really was. She was the girl that used to have a pigtail and that left before they went after Ultimecia. She knew, because she completed her papers for coming aboard and work for the Library. One day, Tesa told Zell who she really was and why she asked for Quistis personally. Zell told her all the things he wanted to tell a few years ago. It was a mutual thing and they got married as well by Cid.
Seifer and Odine had a great secret between them. Seifer knew where Ultimecia was five years ago and Odine asked him to not tell anyone. Odine went to that locating and made a great discovery. Ultimecia was a spirit, like Orion was. He found a body over there and checked it. He found nothing wrong with it. He waited for her to wake up. When she did, she was surprised. She couldn't remember what happened. The only thing she remembered was her name and that she was running some tests in her lab and then fell unconscious. Odine found it really strange when she managed to recognize the city of Esthar. He introduced her to Esthar's president after he explained what happened to the world in the past years to her. The president made her the chief researcher after Odine left Esthar. She thanked Odine, but Odine was the one that should have thanked her, as he learned many things from her. She actually told him how to get rid of the time wraps. It was future science, that's why it was way to complicated for everyone else. He was aware that Ultimecia could be anybody now and that she could appear at any time, but he didn't want to get anyone alert. They all had this peaceful and calm life. He didn't want to ruin this for anyone. 'Would I regret this?' were his thoughts for a long time.
